Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...item in beach paraphernalia is oversized, clear-rimmed sunglasses known as "owl" and "moon" glasses. Most novel are "nudie" glasses, designed by London's Bernard Kayman. Their lenses are tinted at the top, to protect against the sun and replace missing eye makeup. They are clear at the bottom, permitting men to see the wearer's eyes. "Men hate to look at women with dark shades. After all, eyes are one of the things that men look at," explains Kayman. They are, to be sure, part of the total work. But on second thought, what good girl-watcher...
...blather, while Mitchell Ryan's sodden, dandyish Jim Tyrone is a tarnished peacock straight from Old Broadway. Salome Jens, with hoydenish charm, discloses the vulnerable waif inside the intimidating woman. Director Theodore Mann has sensitively staged the play in fidelity to O'Neill's intent: Moon does not brighten the sky, but mirrors itself in melancholy fragments on a swelling sea of sorrow...
...Neill's last plays, A Moon for the Misbegotten, is laid in just such a haunted house of self. It has been revived at Off-Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater in a production of attentive care. The actors' skill, however, cannot fully disguise the weaknesses of a play that contains more reverie than conflict, more dreams than drama. It is an attenuated lament for the loveless, a gentle moonlit ode to the undernourished heart. Each of the three leading characters is an emotional cripple. Phil Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean...
...lead to self-destruction. With pagan innocence, Melinda herself commits incest, adultery, child neglect, international outrage and multiple murder. Because she is not a character, but the author's representation of nascent id, Melinda cannot suffer hell and damnation. She must be ticketed to limbo on a Russian moon rocket that gets irretrievably rutted in orbit around the earth. There she joins the other pieces of spent, sophisticated junk beeping and squealing their Muzak of the spheres...
...arrived in Washington. Along the lamplit streets, past a luminescence of sad and silent faces, the cavalcade wound through the federal city and across the Potomac, where in a green grove up the hill in Arlington, John Kennedy's grave looks out over the city and the river. The moon, the slender candles, the eternal flame at John's memorial?47 feet away and the floodlights laved Robert Kennedy's resting place beneath a magnolia tree. It was 11 o'clock, the first nighttime burial at Arlington in memory. There was no playing of taps, no rifle volley. After...